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Shared Assessments CEO Andrew Moyad had a quite a head start getting up to speed after stepping into his current role in February. Moyad’s 25-plus years in risk management and information security includes leadership roles in vendor risk management at Blackstone, one of the world’s top global as ....

Madonna entered the metaverse last week when she released her hyped non-fungible token (NFT) art series. Over the weekend, the “Material Girl” acquired an immaterial (but collectible) Bored Ape #4988 with NFTs equal to 180 ether or $564K at time of settlement. Top-notch celebs have been explo ....

Is cyber complacency the biggest cyberthreat of all? It seems that it is raining cyberattacks as the methods for deploying attacks grow easier and more accessible. Malicious subscription-based services such as ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) are prevalent. And, a recent launch of malware-as-a-servic ....

Who is Frances Haugen? Frances Haugen grew up attending the Iowa caucuses with her academic parents giving her a strong sense of pride in democracy and civic responsibility. Haugen holds a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Olin College and an MBA from Harvard. She is a specialis ....

We know hackers are getting more sophisticated. Cyber attacks and data breaches make the news on a regular basis, and the costs involved are staggering. But as organizations work to shield themselves from the growing threat of outside hackers, failing to look for threats from within could be just as ....

Lifetime Achievement Awards Catherine Allen (Founder and Chairperson of Shared Assessments) was honored to present these awards “to two extremely deserving recipients” at the 2022 Third Party Risk Summit. Ms. Allen noted Security Magazine called Dr. Larry Ponemon (Founder, Ponemon Institute) ....

Catherine A. Allen, Founder, Chairman and former CEO of Shared Assessments, kicked off the 2022 Third Party Risk Summit with a warm welcome while noting “It’s really a strange time. It’s been a strange time ever since Covid started, and since our last in-person conference, which was in 2019.� ....

Applying a dose of hindsight to the Conference Board’s C-Suite Outlook 2022 survey report seems to reveal major gaps. Surveying 1,614 C-suite executives (including 917 CEOs globally), the report reflects “C-Suite Outlook,” exploring external stress points faced by business leaders. What is th ....

One year ago, a Texas A&M educator predicted a trend that now taxes nearly every third party risk management program, whether they know it or not. “The great resignation is coming,” Texas A&M Associate Professor of Management Anthony Klotz warned Bloomberg BusinessWeek last May. “When there’ ....

Another ransomware attack is garnering a lot of attention. Not because the perpetrators want an astonishing amount of crypto, or because they’re threatening to disrupt commerce across an entire country, but because the threat actors went from infecting the victim’s system to encrypting it in les ....